What links the Coldstream Guards band and the Style Council? The Saturday quiz | Quiz and trivia games

The questions

1 Lana Peters, who died in Wisconsin in 2011, was whose daughter?
2 What is the world’s northernmost national capital city?
3 In France, what means of transport is a Montgolfière?
4 Which king of England was born in Caernarfon?
5 What unique sporting double did Golden Miller achieve in 1934?
6 Which medical remedy was derived from cinchona bark?
7 What US exchange was the world’s first electronic stock market?
8 What was Lina, owned by Albert Einstein?
What links:
9
Guérin; Rimet; Rous; Havelange; Blatter?
10 Coldstream Guards band; Status Quo; the Style Council; the Boomtown Rats?
11 Angoroj (1964); Incubus (1966); Gerda Malaperis! (2006); La Patro (2007)?
12 Kent; New Jersey, US; Victoria, Australia?
13 Baruch; Esdras; Judith; Susanna; Tobit?
14 A in 1903; B and C in 1904; F in 1905; T in 1908?
15 South-west Norfolk; Richmond; Holborn and St Pancras?

Albert Einstein clue messing with your mind? Photograph: Bettmann Archive

The answers

1 Joseph Stalin (and Nadezhda Alliluyeva).
2 Reykjavik (Iceland).
3 Hot air balloon.
4 Edward II.
5 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National.
6 Quinine.
7 Nasdaq.
8 Violin.
9 Presidents of Fifa.
10 First acts of Live Aid in 1985.
11 Feature films in Esperanto.
12 Garden nicknames: garden of England; garden state.
13 Books of the Apocrypha (King James’s Bible).
14 Launch of Ford car models.
15 Constituencies of recent PMs: Truss; Sunak; Starmer.

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